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Did you see it? You all know what I'm talking about....yesterday's late day ramp.

After the rough open, where the DOW fell 190 points and the S&P was down almost 22, they clawed more than half of that back by mid day. Then in the last hour, "there it was" as the S&P peeked into the green. The DOW got within spitting distance but couldn't make it. When the dust finally cleared, we had lost just 2 on the S&P and 45 on the DOW. I had my hunch early in the day that they might try and take the market green and boy did they give it the old college try. I figured they wouldn't want 8 red DOW days, but they just couldn't muster the oomph to get it there. So we did indeed put in our 8th red close, something not seen since....drum roll..... 2011.

Well they made it 12 up days in a row. For no really good reason, the DOW shook off its red and ended the day green by 15. The S&P picked up 2. Think about that for a minute. In the wildest market craze of the late 90's into the housing bubble craze of the 2005 - 07 ramp up, the DOW couldn't string 12 days of up together. But today, in an atmosphere of crushing debt loads, Non-GAAP earnings, and all the other ills...we've done it.

I am Closing the Lifetime Insiders Club offer early. I originally figured I’d leave it open for two weeks and let the folks that might not see our newsletter for a week or so ( travel, etc) get the deal. But I can’t. For all my current annual and monthly subscribers that hopped on this, I say thanks for trusting in us. It’s humbling to see so many take advantage of it. But the response was bigger than I expected, so, I’m not going to run this for “ten days to two weeks”. No, I’m going to end this offer today. This is the last time you’ll see this offer in the Newsletter. I don’t believe I will ever run it again.

I will allow any last minute stragglers in until Midnight on Tuesday. I sort of forgot it was a Holiday weekend and many are traveling for an extended weekend. The deal is simple: For just 600 bucks you get the insiders club until I either croak or mentally/physically can’t write it any more. Considering we get 200 per year, after 3 years it’s all gravy to you. If I publish for 20 more years, you win.

I have posted the Sunday letter up on the site a day early, and I hope all of you click on it and read it. In it I take a look at where all this is heading. We know the world is awash in debt, so much debt that "debt that can't be paid back, won't be". So if we have all this debt, and we know that the Swiss, the ECB, the Japanese and yes our own Fed's are buying stocks, to keep the illusion of strength, how does this end?

In this letter I give 3 separate ideas concerning how I see the future unfolding. Let me tell you, none of the choices are desirable, I just don't know of any others that truly make sense. So as you contemplate the future, take a look at today's letter and ponder on it.

Today’s letter is going to take a bit of a twist from our regular Sunday letters. Not long ago I mentioned our “Vegas Play” in one of the free newsletters, and it caused a lot of buzz. When you send out a letter that goes to tens of thousands of folks, you will get praise mail, hate mail and everything in between. Well, I got push back from some saying I was just sensationalizing a lucky play to drum up more subscribers. So with that in mind, I want to do a bit of history searching, and see if that’s really what I was doing.

I have been a precious metals bull in Gold since 2000. I pounded the table on it, and even said in one particular newsletter that “I think we’ll see gold at 1000 dollars an ounce within ten years”. At the time I wrote that, gold was 295 dollars an ounce. I was soundly mocked and laughed at as a lunatic. As Gold rose higher and higher I continued to tell folks that I was still buying it and it still looked great.

Good morning all, welcome back from your weekend. I'm hoping it was a fun one for you all. Down here in Florida, the weather simply couldn't have been better with bright blue skies and temps in the mid 70's. But like most things in life it brings a downside. All the people fleeing the snow and cold of the north have come down to FL and as each year progresses the traffic gets worse and worse. We call it "in season" when the snowbirds come south. So for the locals, in season brings traffic, long lines, waiting times for restaurants, packed parking lots, etc. I've only been here 10 years and the difference between then and now is startling. Oh well. The birds will fly back north in June and things will become a bit more normal.

Over the course of human history there’ve been quite a few people that have called for the end of the world, the end of civilization, the end of humanity, you name it. Yet here we are on March 24 and the sun came up, folks ate breakfast and for the most part, life goes on.

Likewise there’s been no shortage of folks calling for all manner of doom and gloom over the years. I cannot count on both hands how many people have called for financial collapse, global financial Armageddon, and populations reduced to eating bugs in their front yards to survive. Yet this morning the traffic on Rt. 75here in Sarasota is horrendous as people flock to the beaches, the bars, the eateries and to work.